Comment on grocery shopping

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But we can’t rob a factory.

  not with that attitude!

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• tomiant@piefed.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If laws don’t apply for the rich, get fucked, they don’t apply for me either. Fuck your system.

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• python@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bluetooth speaker in your pocket and a beep sound on your partner’s phone.

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  • copd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    in the UK they weigh the baggage area and if you don’t scan something it’ll should “UNEXPECTED ITEM I THE BAGGAGE AREA” and you get publicly shamed by all the whiter than white old people.

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    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Certain grocery chains in Canada employ these types of self checkout scanners. Every item is weighed, your bags need to be on the scale from the start and there’s a camera over each checkout.

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      • copd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes you do have to put your bag in a special place. It’s effectively impossible to accidentally steal something without using your pockets

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  • relativestranger@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    at the wm here, if you even look at the scanner cross-eyed, it sounds the alarms and halts the register until the babysitter can come over, review the footage and unlock it. if anything passes anywhere in the cameras’ very wide fov and a scan isn’t registered… anything… it stops.

    they got sam’s club-like checkers at the exits, now, too. anything not in a bag gets ‘checked’… at least that’s what we’ve concluded is their criteria, based on when we have been stopped trying to leave.

    me thinks they’ve had a slight uptick in ‘customer-applied discounts’ lately.

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• KombatWombat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Your local Kroger isn’t robbing you. Neither are their suppliers in general, but even so you are not punishing them by shoplifting. The store already paid the producer for it regardless of whether the item is sold or stolen, meaning they don’t care either way.

  If you want to steal, that’s your prerogative, but don’t pretend that you’re morally justified to take out your frustrations on someone unrelated.

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • SippyCup@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Kroger is a grocery chain in the US that is attempting to monopolize grocery stores.

      It is always moral and just to steal from Kroger.

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      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • KombatWombat@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Whatever a “Kroger” might be

      Kroger is a supermarket chain in much of the US, but some of their stores use different branding. I just meant it to be a recognizable example of somewhere you might get your groceries.

      And I’m not frustrated, it’s not about the money, it’s the principle.

      When I said frustrated, I meant in a general sense about the economy, as in higher grocery prices. But I guess I did misunderstand your motivation for this. So it’s not about how much suppliers/stores are actually charging, just that they raised prices at all? And you view that as stealing?

      Someone in the chain did raise prices for items I can’t boycott, I don’t care who.

      And I guess that’s the problem in my eyes. If you intend to punish someone, it should be focussed on whoever is responsible. I’m sure you would agree it is unreasonable to yell at a cashier when your card gets declined for example. I’m also skeptical that you can’t boycott, but without specifics I’ll have to take your word for it.

      Also I don’t need justification. To whom should I justity? to you? lol.

      I judged you because you shared this with other people on the thread, which I view as inviting feedback. But you are right that my opinion isn’t important. What matters is that you can justify your actions to yourself. Whatever your morals are, I doubt it includes indiscriminate punishment. Maybe ask yourself things like, “What would it be like if everyone acted the way I do?” or “Will this lead to things getting better or worse?”.

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• Angelevo@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Turns out the USA never left the Wild Wild West age.

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  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The hand of the market is doing the lifts

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• PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are you Uncle Leo?
  On a tangent, I just found out that Len Lesser was not only quite handsome in his younger years, he was also an extra in one of my favorite movies, the original “Papillon.”

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  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jerry’s uncle. He stole stuff then if caught would say he was old and confused. Kinda like Trump.

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      • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok but who is Jerry

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